2024 term · Roberts Court · vote not recorded
Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton
606 U.S. 461
The record
- Term
- 2024
- Decided
- Issue area
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- Vote split
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- Winning party
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- Decision direction
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- Chief Justice
- Roberts Court
- Disposition
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- Docket
- 23-1122
- U.S. Reports
- 606 U.S. 461
- S. Ct. citation
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- LEXIS citation
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- Opinion by
- Clarence Thomas
Holding
Texas law H. B. 1181—which requires certain commercial websites publishing sexually explicit content that is obscene to minors to verify that visitors are 18 or older— only incidentally burdens the protected speech of adults and survives intermediate scrutiny under the First Amendment’s Free Speech Clause.
How the bench divided
No per-justice vote lineup was available for this case.
Read the opinion
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- JustiaFull opinion textThe majority, concurring and dissenting opinions as handed down.
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- OyezCase pageArgument audio and the vote lineup, when Oyez has published them.